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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for –John A. Shedd

They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.
— Mexican Proverb

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it –Aristotle

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” –Dr. Seuss

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box. –Italian Proverb

There are only two tragedies in life– one is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it. –Oscar Wilde

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. —

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. –Henry Scott Holland

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance –Aristotle

The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them –Colin Powell